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by zahlman 4mo ago
> Japan was among the first countries to vaccinate for chickenpox. The vaccine developed by Hilleman was first licensed in the United States in 1995.[17][60] People (well, Americans and Canadians at least) in their 40s now generally didn
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> the Amyloid hypothesis is on the wane Oh? What did I miss?
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> I'd love a way that isn't miserable to do such a common basic task. The problem is that you actually describe a family of tasks which is not basic. The "iterate over files, select the right ones and apply rules to rename
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> I’ve had people tell me how “fun” it was to build a macro to handle some one-off text-refactoring problem. I can't relate, either as a Vim user myself or having heard other users. To the extent that it happens, it's surely be
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by zahlman 4mo ago
In the discussion, mostly. It's been months; so if you find the general topic interesting (as I do) and check HN regularly (as I do) you'll have seen quite a bit that can at least be tried out, or thought about. Maybe you can get
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> but vim macros are an interactive scripting language specifically designed to tersely express text transformations Yes, I think this is important here. Although it's still hard for me to imagine a level of mastery where one delibe
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by zahlman 4mo ago
Casting aspersions at others behind their back, and then claiming "I wasn't talking to you" when called out for it, is not a productive or civil mode of discourse. Please don't.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> I didn't say that either nor even imply it, and you know that when you quote me afterwards. You come across that way when you describe your interactions with Vim users talking about how they use macros. (Which, incidentally, doesn
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by zahlman 4mo ago
GP claims: > I regularly pipe the result of ls, grep or fd into Helix Helix is being identified as the TUI here. Terminal text editors are very much interactive.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> The CLI is also infinitely easier to help newbies use over the phone! I vaguely recall a scene from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%27s_the_Boss%3F about this. "Click on the icon that says 'Word'.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> I prefer tools that understand the structure of my project instead of just treating it like text ... but in the example you gave, did you not just have it pull up the text contents of a file in a window, and search through it (visually
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> a class of user who enjoys learning all of these “extra” features, even though they ultimately provide less value than the core features. I don't think this was actually established. The author may have a point about the UX of m
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> To solve this you can regular refactor, but it’s not a nice experienc. Really? I always thought that was the best part of programming. And now that I can direct an LLM to identify a specific pattern and rework it in a certain way, or
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> But it doesn’t know exactly what you want. This is a way to tell it. What ever happened to communicating through code ? Agents can follow examples and infer patterns, and they can read commit history and diffs. Real-world commit logs
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> My list is like 200 items now. Know what? Agents don’t care that they just got a wall of generic feedback, they happily look into all the bullet points. Yes, yes, there has been a library of information on HN by now about how to use ag
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by zahlman 4mo ago
I've never heard of the argument you're describing. People simply don't assert that animals lack consciousness ; beyond a certain level at least, their consciousness is obvious. (Sapience, for example, is another matter.) Bu
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Could we see the prompts, though?
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> destroy ChatGPT.app today. ... What changed, exactly?
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> ...tips for using the model: > Avoid generic brevity instructions: GPT-5.6 is more sensitive than GPT-5.5 to instructions such as “Be concise,” “Keep it short,” or “Use minimal text.” I don't follow. Isn't "the model
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by zahlman 4mo ago
The title is "What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works". This logically belongs on a discussion of how the thing works, and not on a critique of the consequences of it working.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
Neat. Deno is packaged on PyPI now, so installation isn't a real issue; but it's nice to be able to invoke the runtime directly rather than by shelling out. Maybe yt-dlp could make use of it?
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by zahlman 4mo ago
Why? Would the Luddites have been a useful source to understand how the machines of the time actually worked? Should I expect my local Green party representative to explain nuclear fission coherently? Is Ed Zitron the guy to explain how to
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by zahlman 4mo ago
My expectation is that you'd hear a lot more about "gated communities", "gatekeeping" etc. than any of the uses of gates that give warm fuzzies. (As a suffix, it's also associated with scandals; but that probab
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> Also: I've never once seen an emoji in LLM output. What are people talking about? It seems to be heavily dependent on the task.
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Doesn't this require accreditation that most programmers wouldn't have?
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FWIW, I've been finding that ChatGPT doesn't use emoji at all when I engage with it like a pair programmer and bounce off design ideas, ask for implementation code, propose refactorings etc. But when I ask it to do data analysis o
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by zahlman 4mo ago
This makes more sense if you think about the contexts in which people would talk about gates on the Internet, I dare say.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> AI is not a productivity multiplier. There are diminishing results. Sure it is. Just that some of the values being multiplied are negative.
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> LLMs drive the unit cost of cognition to zero. Then why are so many others in the thread reporting being swamped with requests to review coworkers' slop? If it's genuinely "cognition" at trivial cost, surely this re
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by zahlman 4mo ago
Perhaps a literal socialist magazine should not be considered an impartial source for the topic in question.

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